music day

We're trying to get back into a routine since the move and the holidays. So for one of our free afternoons we've scheduled it as music day.

Christmas eve

 

merry christmas eve! i worked in the morning then we got our things ready and went to mass at St Rose at 4pm. it was the childrens mass, so they had kids act out the nativity scene and the kids choir was too cute. afterwards, our families came over for dinner and to open gifts. m&m ended the night playing a new lego game on the xbox. they tried to wait for santa, but they were too exhausted.

uncles

we had dad rollie's 40th day celebration today. it was nice, started with mass, then lots of eating, then just hanging out.

just this year, the kids started hanging out with their uncles a lot more, mostly because they are into a lot of the same things like video games.

the whole family even got into an app about superheroes and villains.

passion project

lia's been doing passion projects all year, most of which i didn't know about because she does all her work on her own now. but for this most recent one she made a little diagram with clay. she did it on the lion king, likely because she just had the show.

she can make super tiny things with clay. the whole thing is on a regular piece of paper. my favorite on this is the elephants graveyard.

micah honor roll

micah got on the honor roll for his english class. he's doing awesome in spanish, but still has some struggles. he's done wonders in half a school year of spanish, more than any of us could ever do.  it's like pulling teeth to get him to do his homework, so this was a great boost for him to get this award. so proud of my little guy.

snow in eastlake

we were heading home and i remembered they have snow in eastlake village walk. we just made it in time. with everything that's been going on, it was nice to see the kids faces light up. it's feeling a lot like Christmas.

twin day

twin day at school. this is one of lia's BFFs, samantha. malia loooooooooooves her. she calls her sammie. sammie is so sweet, she bought lia a shirt just for twin day. lia's shirt fit perfectly, it's a size 5/6, too funny.

we're HOME

we're home! our home! i don't think the idea will ever get old.

we got our keys today and moved a few things in. although we won't officially be here until the weekend, it's all ours!

 

let's draw

it's a lazy sunday evening and lia says, "let's draw." so i sit with her and she's giving me instructions on how to draw mickey holding a pumpkin. and after a few minutes she shows me hers and mine looks nothing like hers and i want to throw mine away. she amazes me with her drawing talent.

pumpkin station with the cousins

the holidays are about to kick off and here i am again wondering where the time went and asking myself why are the kids so big.

as always, whenever we make it to the pumpkin station, i try to remember to take the same photographs of m&m. i would like to rewind the time please and make them like the first photo, thank you. but they are still fun now...sometimes.

we met up with the cousins and rode some rides, played some games. it's crazy that they still have the same rides as long time ago.

 

 

see you next year pumpkin station!